As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
I’m starting to think Marx wasn’t just using an allegory there.
Communist China’s growth practices are well-documented in the public domain, from cooking blogs and home magazines to YouTube videos and documentaries. These practices include such offenses as fertilizing garlic with human feces and forms of sewage, growing garlic in sewage, bleaching garlic to make it appear whiter and cleaner to the eye after its growth in unsanitary conditions, and stripping the root end from garlic before it enters U.S. markets as to make it appear more appealing and also to comply with U.S. laws regarding prevention of soil-borne diseases and contaminants.
God forbid Communist China … complies with our regulations?
I’m glad this country is so stable that Fucking Garlic can strike fear into our hearts, great sign for us
These people are vampires.
Vampires are often allegory for aristocrats, but I think they can represent capitalists as well, because both classes are parasites in their respective time periods.
Is there any piece of media that depicts a vampire with capitalist aesthetic?
The classic world of darkness has a vampire clan associated with capitalists called the Ventrue.
Here is some info from the white wolf wiki. https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Ventrue_(VTM)
A lot of vampires in WoD are capitalists because, as we know even from capeshit, money is the best superpower. Sure, you can skulk in sewers like some Nosferatu but not even the Second Inquisition in the new shitty grimdark version of WoD is able to do much to billionaire.
Then there is the Syndicate branch of the Technocracy which are the embodiment of capitalism itself. They work for the technocracy but they are hypocrites that use very vulgar magic. They also have a subsidiary that is an oil corporation Pentex that is even more evil than the average oil corporation.
I mean, the original Dracula movies were usually about some Mysterious Count who lives apart from society, follows old traditions and hunts those with less power than himself, physically or societally. That already seems like an indictment of the current system as is, even if Counts existed before Capitalism did.
Y’know, the insults of calling the US run by “blood-sucking vampiric ghouls” or something similar, I never thought it could be close to literal, but here we are I guess.
So I’ve seen something like this on tiktok, weirdo food people were spreading propaganda that Chinese garlic was poisoned with bleach and that Chinese peeled garlic was peeled by mouth and therefore bacteria infested.
It really frustrates me how people will believe anything about China, as long as it is a hateful and racist enough conspiracy theory.
If garlic is such a threat to the American people, then why isn’t garlic (and other alliums) allergies covered by any overly priced health insurance plan I’ve seen?
Damn. Imma gonna sell my garlic bulbs as freedom garlic.
Such an easy to grow plant.
Good dirt, plant biggest cloves from biggest bulbs pointy end up barely below surface. Mulch with dead leaves in late autumn. Cut away flower scapes and eat them on salads. Water well weekly. Harvest when leaves start to brown. Repeat ad infinitum.
i knew it, USA is ruled by fkn vampires!
Of course it’s Rick Scott.
I got some garlic from China recently, unlike my normal garlic cloves, this one was powdered. Why was it in a powder form China?! What are you hiding? The garlic powder could be tiny nano micro-phones for spying!
We are a deeply serious country, I swear 🤬
There was a documentary about Chinese peeled garlic around 5 years ago.
I’m reminded of that weird news story a couple years back when the government raised to alarm on seeds from China people were getting in the mail.
The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds is a great read.
tldr/spoiler
Numerous US government agencies were investigating the phenomenon of people mysteriously receiving seeds from China which they said they hadn’t ordered, but…
are you sure you want to spoil it and not read the article?
OK
…every case this journalist investigated turned out to be people who had actually ordered seeds at the beginning of the pandemic and had forgotten that they’d ordered them by the time they arrived months later.
How anyone takes that country serious is beyond me.
Is this done out of genuine concern about garlic or to mess with the import process by forcing them to perform checks on all garlic imports?
It’s either empty fearmonger or this dude or his friends are going to profit from cutting garlic imports.